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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Calipatria in CA


Earthquake location 33.0576667S, -115.4935WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Calipatria in CA. The temblor was detected at 06:10:03 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -115.4935 West, latitude 33.0576667 North, depth = 1.04 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ci39649064. Unique identifier: ci39649064. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/10/20 / 2020-10-02 06:10:03 / October 2, 2020 @ 6:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.04 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop), United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Mexicali (c. 597 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from El Centro (c. 42 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Calexico (c. 38 600 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Brawley (c. 25 000 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Imperial (c. 14 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecolots, Oasis, Puebla.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km SSE of Calipatria, CA.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -115.4935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 33.0576667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Calipatria, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-02 06:10:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-02 06:13:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 125 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.07673 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci39649064 Id of event.
Event Code 39649064 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci39649064, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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